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Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw
E-bok, 2001
1344 kr
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How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by …
Shakespearean Intertextuality
Studies in Selected Sources and Plays
E-bok, 1998
1344 kr
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In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir into the …
Best Actors in the World
Shakespeare and His Acting Company
Av David Grote
E-bok, 2002
785 kr
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Shakespeare knew actors because he was one. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume investigates Shakespeare as a member of his acting company, dating and casting all the plays they presented from 1594 to 1614, and exploring the effects of actors on his writing. Much has been written …
Thatcher's Theatre
British Theatre and Drama in the Eighties
E-bok, 1999
1605 kr
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The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become possible to disentangle fact from fantasy concerning her effect on …
Audience Participation
Essays on Inclusion in Performance
E-bok, 2003
1335 kr
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Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance serves as a corrective …
German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Idealism, Romanticism, and Realism
Inbunden, 1985
879 kr
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Theatre of Meyerhold and Brecht
Inbunden, 1985
738 kr
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This book focuses on the relationship of Bertolt Brecht to the theater of Russian director Vsevold E. Meyerhold. Eaton's analysis places Brecht's dramatic theory and practice in proper historical perspective, thereby increasing our understanding of the role of the Russian avant-garde in shaping …
Hamlet on Stage
The Great Tradition
Av John Mills
Inbunden, 1985
1097 kr
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John Mills spotlights the various ways in which the role of Hamlet has been performed over almost four centuries. He launches this work with the first Hamlet portrayal, that of Richard Burbage, and then, in chronological order, describes and analyzes the Hamlets of the other actors who make up the …
Simple Stage
Its Origins in the Modern American Theater
Inbunden, 1992
1101 kr
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This book is about leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simple stage. Their work initially raised controversy, being applauded as visionary and poetic by some, drab and monotonous by others. And yet today the …
Spotlight on the Child
Studies in the History of American Children's Theatre
Av Roger L. Bedard, C. John Tolch
Inbunden, 1989
1101 kr
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Although children's theatre has been a part of American culture from early times, historians have not always included it in the documentation of our theatrical heritage. Sometimes more the product of the educator and the social worker than the producer or the theatre artist, theatre with and for …
Richard's Himself Again
A Stage History of Richard III
Inbunden, 1992
985 kr
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One of a handful of great Shakespearean roles, the part of Richard of Gloucester has maintained its importance from the beginning of its performance history in the late 1690s and has assumed an identity extending even beyond the play. The range of interpretation has been startling, with many actors …
Eugene O'Neill's Century
Centennial Views on America's Foremost Tragic Dramatist
Inbunden, 1991
1229 kr
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This collection commemorating the centennial of American playwright Eugene O'Neill's birth presents a spectrum of critical views unusual for its variety and breadth of scholarship. Contributors from such diverse fields as Psychology, English Literature, Germanic Studies, Philosophy, the Classics, …
Orson Welles on Shakespeare
The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts
Inbunden, 1990
1229 kr
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This fascinating work will prove valuable for collections in film, theater history, and Shakespearean production. . . . The book includes fascinating production photos and helpful notes in which the original acts and scenes are identified, thus showing the extent to which Welles rearranged …
Age of Hair
Evolution and Impact of Broadway's First Rock Musical
Inbunden, 1991
882 kr
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A reflection and symbol of the turbulent 1960s and the culture and lifestyles of the Hippies, Hair made history as the first rock musical on Broadway and one of the most successful musicals. The sixties left an indelible imprint upon the American psyche, and Hair, in the words of critic Clive …
From Belasco to Brook
Representative Directors of the English-Speaking Stage
Inbunden, 1991
1101 kr
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This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage (Greenwood Press, 1991), provides exhaustively detailed, yet compact accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight outstanding directors of the …
Strategies of Drama
The Experience of Form
Inbunden, 1991
1636 kr
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In this unique study of the dramatic form, Oscar Lee Brownstein presents a personal analysis of the way in which experience is created by drama. A variety of plays are discussed and examined as perceptual objects, structures whose designs are entirely determined by the fact that they are meant to …
Where the Words Are Valid
T.S. Eliot's Communities of Drama
Inbunden, 1994
1229 kr
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To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Where the Words Are Valid brings to modernist scholars' serious attention a large body of work that has often been glibly patronized and relegated to near-obscurity. Eliot's plays …
Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet
Puppetry as a Theatrical Art
Av Steve Tillis
Inbunden, 1992
1465 kr
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Societies around the world have their puppet traditions and puppetry remains a vital theatrical art; yet puppetry has received little attention in the theoretical study of theatre. The present study offers an aesthetic theory and vocabulary for practitioners, critics, and audiences to utilize in …
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre
The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940
Av Edna Nahshon
Inbunden, 1998
1101 kr
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The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the American stage during the half century that …
Fredric March
Craftsman First, Star Second
Inbunden, 1996
1135 kr
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Fredric March was one of the foremost actors America produced during the 20th century, holding the distinction of winning Best Actor Awards in two films and two Broadway plays. He consciously chose not to shape his career by projecting his own personality, but created a new characterization for …
Thatcher's Theatre
British Theatre and Drama in the Eighties
Inbunden, 1999
1465 kr
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The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become possible to disentangle fact from fantasy concerning her effect on …
Comedy in the Weimar Republic
A Chronicle of Incongruous Laughter
Inbunden, 1996
741 kr
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Theatre was one of many German institutions experiencing profound change in the aftermath of World War I. Grange contends that had comedy not prevailed throughout the turbulent years of the ill-fated Weimar experiment in democracy, much of theatre would have died along with the republic itself. …
Contemporary British History Play
Inbunden, 1998
1229 kr
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British drama since 1956 has been particularly innovative. This volume investigates how recent British history plays reflect the methods and values of New History, in contrast to traditional biographical dramas that depict the lives of great men of the past. More than 50 British playwrights are …
Dramatists and the Bomb
American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964
Inbunden, 1999
1229 kr
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While the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki secured an American victory in the Pacific and hastened the end of World War II, it also ushered in an era of fear. When the Soviets developed an atomic bomb, the United States ceased to be the world's only nuclear power. Americans feared a nuclear …
Shakespearean Intertextuality
Studies in Selected Sources and Plays
Inbunden, 1998
1229 kr
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In reshaping Lodge's Rosalynde into As You Like It, Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir into the …
Reinventing Drama
Acting, Iconicity, Performance
Inbunden, 1999
1229 kr
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Dramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery inherent in the dramatic text. A playwright first invents a drama out of mental imagery. The dramatic text presents the drama as a range of verbal imagery. During rehearsal, the actors cultivate this verbal imagery …
Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
New Evidence of an Authorship Problem
Av Diana Price
Inbunden, 2000
1229 kr
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As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned whether the historical Shakespeare wrote the plays popularly attributed to him. While other books on the subject have argued that some other particular …
Actor as Anti-Character
Dionysus, the Devil, and the Boy Rosalind
Inbunden, 2000
1229 kr
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Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rituals, this book describes the figure of the actor as anti-character in premodern popular theatre. Particularly in plays belonging to the popular, performative tradition, the actor simultaneously …
Audience Participation
Essays on Inclusion in Performance
Av Susan Kattwinkel, Susan Kattwinkel
Inbunden, 2003
1246 kr
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Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance serves as a corrective …
